Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

carchaeologist · 05-02-2008 12:58AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Perhaps we need a - "Today I saw a 1980-87 Potential Classic" thread!

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Sounds like a good idea for a thread,or something lalong the lines of a "Today i saw an original irish reg car on the road", they are getting harder and harder to spot these days,and i for one like seeing them still out there.:D

Anan1 · 05-02-2008 10:30AM

I saw a green Citroen SM yesterday in Monkstown on Irish "YIK" plates. Bit smokey, but it was moving quickly and was still beautiful. No pic, i'm afraid.

jozi · 05-02-2008 07:36PM

This morning out side tesco in phibsboro a renault 5 on RSI plates (if mem serves me right)

Max_Damage · 05-02-2008 07:45PM

jozi wrote: »

This morning out side tesco in phibsboro a renault 5 on RSI plates (if mem serves me right)

Now that's a blast from the past! Haven't seen one of those in ages.

mountain · 06-02-2008 03:54PM

Seen this morning in Skibbereen,

tc20 · 06-02-2008 04:25PM

Spotted at Palmerstown Park, D6 this morning - a 67 D xxx BMW 2000 CS. Silver in colour, missing some brightwork, incl bonnet badge. A work-in-progress perhaps?

carchaeologist · 06-02-2008 06:16PM

That 5 is a rare machine indeed these days, i spotted one in a field recently near tralee, but it had disappeared when i went back to investigate further:mad:.The beetle looks like it gets regular use aswell.

macplaxton · 06-02-2008 11:29PM

mike65 wrote: »

The Classic definition is being stretched to breaking point again!

Mike.

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Perhaps we need a - "Today I saw a 1980-87 Potential Classic" thread!

I have a nice few pre '87 pics but there's nowhere really to post them.

I wouldn't call anything designed past 1970 a "classic", collectable - maybe, historic - suppose so. You can't keep stretching the eras, you have to put some bookends to them. (Like generally accepted terms of veteran and vintage).

Perhaps you should call it "Today I saw an old vehicle (future historic vehicle) between 20-30 years old".

mike65 · 08-02-2008 06:46PM

Some blasts from the "Its definitely a Classic" past!

I'll let those well versed in true vintage and veteran cars to ID them.

Mike.

Daxklynsmith · 08-02-2008 07:32PM

I would have said Wolsely circa 1949, Green Zephyr and Bentley, think the cream one is an old Alpha but lost there

carchaeologist · 08-02-2008 08:11PM

Excellent pics mike!!:D:D They have that vintage orangey patina too that you cant seem to get with todays digital cameras.

mike65 · 08-02-2008 08:48PM

The pix are standard 6x4 prints taken on a nice Ricoh SLR and re-photographed by me under an incandecent lamp, hence the tone

I've got quite a few more which I'll post over the next few days.

Mike.

starrywalsh · 09-02-2008 03:19AM

There seem so be a right auld debate going on here about what is a classic and what is not, I tought that anything 25 - 30 is a classic, and then 30+ a vintage .... I think that my 1980 Austin Mini is a classic,, it is actually pictured somewhere in this thread twice.... I alos think debate is good, but sometimes I think it goes to far and it seems like people are been laughed at because they put up a picture of a car they concider a "classic" and others don't... I don't think its right to do this to anyone, if someone went to the bother of taking a photo and posting it I think we should look and enjoy, and say "ahh there is still plenty of them around go way outta that boi"

Banter is good, but sometimes it goes to far, I think we should all remember that.

Here is a 3rd pic of my classic, I update it here as more work is done, feel free to say "go way boi sure them things are 10a penny"

mike65 · 09-02-2008 12:00PM

More pix

These were taken somewhere in Kilkenny I think, it might have been somewhere near Callan. There were regular meetings for a spot of field rallying. My dad got one great shot which I can't find of a Mini flipping over which the Munster Express published

Mike.

Wishbone Ash · 09-02-2008 12:16PM

mike65 wrote:

standard 6x4 prints taken on a nice Ricoh SLR and re-photographed by me

Now that's an idea!

*gets out albums*

Great pics mike.

A pair of SD1s (3500 Vitesse and a 2600S) spotted on Dolphin Road, Dublin. (Their registrations would suggest that they were at the tail-end of production).

Daxklynsmith · 09-02-2008 12:22PM

Yeah,I guess here is a certain amount of snobbery about what a classic really is but I think it also goes to what makes someone choose a particular marque or model..

Was it because you once aupon a time said when I'm grown....or your dad's/Grandpa's/Favourite Uncles car....?

I grew up in South Africa where cars tended to rust less and 3 of my "Classics" were just cheap transport at the time ie 1949 MG TC,1950 Ford Prefect and 1965 Mini Cooper.
In the same vein,unless they were rare or expensive when launched ,saloons tended not to figure, a 60's Merc 220se fintail or ponton was desirable to renovate rather than a zodiac or Consul from the same era
I guess it's what makes your heart go bump

mike65 · 09-02-2008 12:34PM

That plastic lump of the rear of the Vitesse is just horrid - they could have colour-coordinated it at least. The exhaust position always looks a bit "bolt on" too.

Mike.

Wishbone Ash · 09-02-2008 12:36PM

Daxklynsmith wrote: »

Yeah,I guess here is a certain amount of snobbery about what a classic really is but I think it also goes to what makes someone choose a particular marque or model..

Was it because you once aupon a time said when I'm grown....or your dad's/Grandpa's/Favourite Uncles car....?

Having been a child in the 1970s, I tend to have a fondness for cars from the 1960s and 1970s as they were what I grew up with.

Older classics don't interest me as much to be honest.

Wishbone Ash · 09-02-2008 12:37PM

mike65 wrote: »

That plastic lump of the rear of the Vitesse is just horrid - they could have colour-coordinated it at least. The exhaust position always looks a bit "bolt on" too.

Mike.

Agree (and the 2600 probably spent half it's life towing caravans).

macplaxton · 09-02-2008 08:15PM

Okay. I did see this, but didn't take the photo. I haven't seen one in years. Think it's a 79-80 V plate.

carchaeologist · 09-02-2008 09:13PM

Heres a shot of my 100A

DaveCol · 10-02-2008 01:00AM

That Cherry is a blast from the past, we had two n the family that rotted away to nothing. I would love that Rover Vitesse further up

carchaeologist · 10-02-2008 01:11AM

yep,iv yet to see another irish one out on the roads these days, seems everyone has a story of how someone in their family used to have one back in the day, it generates alot of interest when im out with it.

Wishbone Ash · 10-02-2008 01:19AM

It's a beaut. I recall our next door neighbour getting a new one in about 1974. My father and other men were a bit suspicious of it as it was "Japanese"! Innocent times.

carchaeologist · 10-02-2008 01:38AM

Ha ha, classic:D

DaveCol · 10-02-2008 11:42PM

My Aunt traded in a yellow Mk1 Capri with a black vinyl roof for her Datsun. Tough choice as to which I would prefer now!

carchaeologist · 10-02-2008 11:49PM

Me too:p,can i have both?:DWas it a cherry she traded the capri for? That was a bit of a come down in size!

Max_Damage · 11-02-2008 01:14AM

That reg. plate on the red SD1 is unusual. It's an E-reg. (July '87 - '88), but the SD1 ceased production in 1986. It must have been sitting in the garage forecourt for some time or something.

Spit62500 · 11-02-2008 07:58AM

Max_Damage wrote: »

That reg. plate on the red SD1 is unusual. It's an E-reg. (July '87 - '88), but the SD1 ceased production in 1986. It must have been sitting in the garage forecourt for some time or something.

it is a bit strange - buyers were probably swayed by the promise of better build quality with the Honda associated replacement so maybe the last ones were harder to shift - its most likely a twin plenum model as well - they're much sought after now (at least the engines are anyway...)

Dades · 11-02-2008 11:36AM

macplaxton wrote: »

Okay. I did see this, but didn't take the photo. I haven't seen one in years. Think it's a 79-80 V plate.

The last time I remember seeing one of those I thought they were awful.
Now I'm really digging the one in those pics! Times change...

Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

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